This article is to provide information on how to get Arch up and running on the Chromebook series of laptops (or netbooks) as built by Samsung, Acer, Google.

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This article is to provide information on how to get Arch up and running on the Chromebook series of laptops built by Acer, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, and Google. Currently overhauling all of this and trying to get more specific model pages built with uniform methods listed here.

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Discussion of this topic began in this forum thread:

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148602

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Initially written with the intention of getting a Samsung Series 5 550 to dual boot with Arch. (Only reason for the dual boot is to potentially collect firmware changes pushed downward from Chromeos).

Reminder- Needs to be moved to its own page given the boatload of new development surrounding this model including with coreboot / seabios.

===Developer Mode===

===Developer Mode===

Developer mode on the Samsung Series 5 has two levels of access, "dev-switch on" and "dev-mode BIOS". With the first level you enable a command line shell, which lets you look around inside the GNU/Linux operating system, but does not let you run your own versions.

Developer mode on the Samsung Series 5 has two levels of access, "dev-switch on" and "dev-mode BIOS". With the first level you enable a command line shell, which lets you look around inside the GNU/Linux operating system, but does not let you run your own versions.

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{{Warning|Be gentle with the developer switch! Some people have reported that the developer switch breaks easily.}}

{{Warning|Be gentle with the developer switch! Some people have reported that the developer switch breaks easily.}}

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==Chromebook Pixel==

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Suspending more than once [https://plus.google.com/109560881064626882142/posts/gyjF87fq9Js causes a reboot] unless the tpm module is enabled with specific options:

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modprobe tpm_tis force=1 interrupts=0

Revision as of 22:42, 19 February 2014

This article is to provide information on how to get Arch up and running on the Chromebook series of laptops built by Acer, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, and Google. Currently overhauling all of this and trying to get more specific model pages built with uniform methods listed here.

Samsung Series 5 550

Reminder- Needs to be moved to its own page given the boatload of new development surrounding this model including with coreboot / seabios.

Developer Mode

Developer mode on the Samsung Series 5 has two levels of access, "dev-switch on" and "dev-mode BIOS". With the first level you enable a command line shell, which lets you look around inside the GNU/Linux operating system, but does not let you run your own versions.

The second level of access installs a special BIOS component that provides the ability to boot your own operating systems from either removable (USB/SD) or fixed (SSD) drives. Both levels of access are completely reversible, so don't be afraid to experiment.

The second level (described above) is what we want in order to install Arch.

The switch is behind a little door on the right-hand side of the chromebook (as linked above). To enable the developer switch you open the door, use something pointy (paperclip or toothpick) to move the switch towards the back of the device, and reboot.

Warning: Be gentle with the developer switch! Some people have reported that the developer switch breaks easily.

Chromebook Pixel

Suspending more than once causes a reboot unless the tpm module is enabled with specific options: